mondaine
Example Sentences
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The aristocratic and spiritual dimensions of painting were giving way to something more fashionable, more mondaine.
From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2023
Mais de la joye mondaine La course est si tressoudaine, Qu'elle passe encor devant L'eau et le traict et le vent.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022
Un pur formalisme, une étiquette mondaine, telle elle était: rien de plus.
From Collections and Recollections by Russell, George William Erskine
To an outsider or a mondaine, the Maidonovo routine would have seemed monotonous to a verge of imbecility.
From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton
And the mondaine with her boredom ... the hatred in wide houses....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald